Clash Takes Part in the Annual Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival

After Receiving Two Awards at the Scarborough Worldwide Film Festival in Canada

Clash Takes Part in the Annual Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival

In collaboration with the Karama Film Festival in Jordan and the Human Rights Watch (HRW), Mohamed Diab's film Clash has been selected to take part in the second edition of the Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival (KBHRFF). Taking place from the 11th to 14th of July, the festival is held this year under the theme "New Identities". The film screenings will be held in Metropolis Empire Sofil cinemas in Beirut.

Most recently, Clash has won the Grand Prix Award and the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film through its participation in the 5th Scarborough Worldwide Film Festival in Canada.

Tackling the political unrest that prevailed in Egypt in 2013, Clash's events take place in an 8-meter police truck, crammed with detainees representing different sects of society, their interaction with each other full of madness, violence, romance, and comedy. Co-written by Khaled Diab and Mohamed Diab, who is also the director, Clash is a co-production between France, Egypt, Germany, and the UAE. The cast includes Nelly Karim, Tarek Abd El Aziz, Hany Adel, Ahmed Malek, Ashraf Hamdi, Mohamed Abdel Azim, Gamil Barsoum and others.

The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) had chosen to present Clash that is Egypt's official submission to the Best Foreign-Language Film category at the Academy Awards 2017 to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HEPA) for Golden Globe Award consideration.

In May 2016, the film landed its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival as it opened the prestigious Un Certain Regard section. Clash marked Egypt's comeback as an official selection to the world's most prestigious film event after a few years of absence. The Hollywood Reporter also selected Clash as one of the 10 best films on its Critics' Faves at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.

Clash is a joint production effort between: Film Clinic (Egypt), Sampek Productions (France), and Acamedia Global (UAE), in association with ARTE France Cinema (France), Niko Film (Germany), Fortress Film Clinic (UAE), and Pyramide International (France). Taking part in the project are producers Moez Masoud, Mohamed Hefzy, Eric Lagesse, and it is co-produced by Nicole Gerhards, alongside executive producers Jamal Al Dabbous and Daniel Ziskind.Mohamed Diab's wife, Sarah Goher, also acted as a creative collaborator on the film, earning the title "Creative Producer". The film is distributed in Egyptian theatres by MAD Solutions, while Pyramide International distributes it in France and the rest of the world.